The dust left from the disastrous Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses is all but settled with Vt. Sen. Bernie Sanders awarded equal pledged delegates as former South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg. The controversy resulting from the...
The first primary event of the 2020 presidential cycle begins Monday with the Iowa caucus, and Vt. Sen. Bernie Sanders is dominating the field of contenders. And Donald Trump is nervous. He admitted as much at a...
Donald Trump is not the the only Republican fomenting domestic terrorism. On Saturday, Iowa Rep. Steve King posted the following meme to Facebook: (Perhaps he didn't know Iowa is portrayed on the blue team.) This is just another example in...
Bob Vander Plaats on vacation in Florence (image from Vander Plaats' Facebook)
One of the most nauseating moments of the 2016 campaign cycle came when the religious right almost unanimously stood behind Donald Trump when the "Access Hollywood" tape came out. By all rights, hearing Trump caught...
Chuck Grassley at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference (image courtesy Gage Skidmore, available under a Creative Commons BY-SA license)
In recent years, those of us who cut our political teeth during the Clinton years have come to believe that there is a certain element in the Republican base who will not accept a Democratic...
Bob Vander Plaats on vacation in Florence (image from Vander Plaats' Facebook)
For most of the last 24 hours, the Internet has been abuzz about White House communications boss Anthony Scaramucci's bizarre, curse-filled rant to The New Yorker. Well, it looks like that rant may have knocked...
Planned Parenthood has helped thousands of women over the years. This year, Vice President Mike Pence made sure that the organization was defunded. He and his anti-choice cohorts have been trying to defund Planned Parenthood...
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Republicans love to tout "local control," "states' rights," and "smaller government." You've heard the talking points: "Let the states decide their own gun control laws." "The federal government is not in the education business." "It's not the government's job...
Wednesday evening, as scandal swirled all around him and his lies increased with every tweet, President Trump went to Iowa for one of his patented victory rallies, even though the election was over seven months ago....
President Donald Trump is no stranger to naming bizarre picks to serve in his administration. Betsy DeVos, his Secretary of Education, made a name for herself trying to destroy Michigan's public education system. Scott Pruitt, his head...
We knew that anti-abortion activists were heartless, but not to this extent. 'Good Medicine' Despite the fact that most abortions occur within the first trimester, lawmakers continue to try and impose 20-week bans. Rep. Shannon Lundgren (R-Iowa)...
It happened back in January 2016. We were still in the early days of the presidential campaign, before the first caucus had even taken place. Candidate Donald Trump was holding a rally at the University of...
You might not think that one member of the House of Representatives could single handedly demolish an entire state's industry, but the famously vile Steve King (R-IA) has managed it. Congressman King has gained national notoriety...
Welcome to the new Nazi era. Well known xenophobe and white nationalist Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) is taking his hate speech to a whole new level. Last night the far right American bigot tweeted his belief that...
Steve King on the campaign trail in Ames, Iowa in 2011 (image courtesy Gage Skidmore, available under a Creative Commons BY-SA license)
There are a lot of loathsome characters in the House Republican caucus. But ever since coming to Washington in 2003, Steve King has been one of the most loathsome characters in that bunch. The bomb-thrower from...
Ever since the public opinion polls began showing him behind in the 2016 race for the White House, GOP nominee Donald Trump has alleged that the political system and election is "rigged." He has even...
Hillary Clinton at the 2014 United Methodist Women Conference (image courtesy United Methodist Women, available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license)
For much of the campaign, there was talk that Donald Trump's support was a lot greater than it seemed because of a large number of closet Trump supporters--a bloc of support for the Donald that isn't...
Jason Kline with his students (image from Kennedy High's Facebook)
Anyone who wonders why we're making such a big deal about Donald Trump's 2005 tape should consider that by dismissing it as mere "locker room talk," Trump was effectively telling every man and boy in...
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is absolutely unfit to be president. He has alienated every group imaginable. He has tried to appeal to the religious right, though. Most recently, he cited a non-existent law to...
The Todd Becker Foundation (TBF)  gave a lecture about drinking and driving to a public school last spring. They charged the school $1,500 for it. Here's the kicker: the topic may have been secular, but the...